China Focus: China's "Ice City" amazes foreign students with cultural, technological wonders

HARBIN, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Despite having rowed the River Cam in England countless times, steering a dragon boat across the ice-covered Songhua River in China proved an exhilarating experience for Jamie Baker, a student at the University of Oxford.

Practicing ice dragon boating in the extreme cold, where a traditional custom is blended with a modern sport, is truly astonishing, Baker said. The experience, he no